Early Modern & Modern Humanities & Cultures

ISBN: 9781907975769
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
The sixteenth century was an exciting period in the history of European theatre. In the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, France, Germany and England, writers and actors experimented with new dramatic techniques and found new publics. The... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781909662087
Published by : Legenda
For Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-81), who lived with epileptic seizures for more than thirty years, illness is an ineradicable part of existence. Epilepsy in his writings denotes both a set of physical symptoms and a state of survival ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781909662117
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
In mid-eighteenth-century Europe, a taste for sentiment accompanied the 'rise of the novel', and the success of Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) played a vital role in this. James Fowler's new study is the first to compare the respon... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975851
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 38
At stake throughout the fictional writings of Marie NDiaye (1967–) is the issue of the stranger’s welcome. NDiaye’s fascination with a spectrum of outsider figures and with the multiple, often subtle practices wh... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975813
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Francophone writers from North Africa and the Middle East often choose to write within a sacred context, sometimes engaging directly with Islamist rhetoric. Novelists like Tahar Ben Jelloun (Morocco), Assia Djebar (Algeria) and Am... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781908343901
Published by : Aris & Phillips
In this collection of 65 short poems, Roberta Quance exemplifies the range, vitality and inner mysticism of work by one of Spain’s foremost, if controversial, contemporary female poets, drawing on the contents of a number of... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781908343918
Published by : Aris & Phillips
In this collection of 65 short poems, Roberta Quance exemplifies the range, vitality and inner mysticism of work by one of Spain’s foremost, if controversial, contemporary female poets, drawing on the contents of a number of... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975882
Published by : Legenda
Series: Germanic Literatures
Volume: 4
Since unification, German culture has experienced a boom in discourses on generation, family and place. Linda Shortt reads this as symptomatic of a wider quest for belonging that mobilises attachment to counter the effects of post... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975998
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 29
While the writing of Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973) is renowned for its linguistic and narrative proliferation, the best-known works of Samuel Beckett (1906-89) are minimalist, with a clear fondness for subtraction and abstraction... .... Learn More